History education plays an important role as civic education in Singapore. Citizenship pursed through history education is not focused on pluralistic thinking and universal value of mankind, but on identification of Singapore nation people. So, syllabi of Singapore history subject are mainly composed of Singapore nation's historical changes and the process of independent Singapore, along with effects which making on Singapore people's lives. These syllabi reflect the characteristic of Singapore history education more emphasizing identification than multi-perspective.
But such the identification embraces self-identity or internationality as well as national identity. Singapore history education does not support the exclusiveness against other nation or the passive contact with global world in this sense. Singapore history curriculum presents inquiry method as the strategy of learning history, lays stress on the social critical mind and encourages historical imagination and empathy for understanding the historical mind and reason. This national history curriculum aims at students' having identification with historical agents.
The characteristic of civic education in Singapore history education is different from the general nature of democratic civic education, focusing on social values such as freedom, equality, peace and human right and emphasizing mutual understanding and multi-perspective. But it has considerable suggestions on Korean history education that Singapore history education is concerned in social problems causing conflicts in people's relationships and has the stress on developing students' critical thinking through which helps to solve those problems.